Entre liberté et sécurité - QRC (Questions à Réponses Courtes)
TD - 2 pages - Droit autres branches
La privation de liberté n'a pas toujours été la conséquence d'une condamnation pénale. Si dans le droit moderne, une personne ne peut être privée de sa liberté que sur la base d'une condamnation pénale, cela n'a pas toujours été le cas dans l'ancien droit, notamment entre le...
L'Amérique latine comme terrain d'expérimentation d'un nouveau droit constitutionnel
Dissertation - 9 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Professeur à l'Université de Los Andes de Bogotá, Daniel Bonilla Maldonado a récemment reproché aux développements de droit comparé d'être biaisés par des facteurs autres que juridiques, non pris en compte par la matière. L'un de ces principaux éléments discordants entre l'étude...
La Décentralisation et la Responsabilité sans faute de l'administration - QRC (questions à réponses courtes)
TD - 2 pages - Droit administratif
La Décentralisation est un processus par lequel l'État reconnaît l'existence de collectivités territoriales disposant de la personnalité morale, de l'autonomie financière et de compétences administratives qu'elles peuvent exercer conformément à leurs intérêts locaux, mais dans le respect de la...
"The O'Connor Court: America's most powerful Jurist" by Jeffrey Rosen
Fiche de lecture - 5 pages - Droit international
This is an article written by Jeffrey Rosen, who is a law professor. It's a slightly critics article in which he tries to show the advantages Justice O'Connor brought to the Court and it also strongly criticizes her decision-making process, her view of the Court in general,...
The Constitutionalisation of the treaties by the ECJ: The theories of direct effect and supremacy from the perspective of the French courts
Dissertation - 8 pages - Droit européen
The Community has developed with an inexorable dynamism of enhanced supranationalism. As a result, it has first been ruled by general principles of public international law to become an interstate governmental structure "per se " ruled by a "Constitutional Charter? . The Constitutionalisation is...
Evaluate the developing case law of the Court of Justice with respect to its application of the principle of State liability to situations in which a Member state has failed to fulfil its obligations concerning the transposition of a Directive into nation
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit européen
In the first part, I shall debate that the immediate consequence of the directives and article 228 were the first steps taken by the court with respect to the application of a state liability. In the second part, I shall explain the context and consequences of the application of the state...
The United States and the International Criminal Court: How valid are the US arguments for not joining the International Court ?
Dissertation - 11 pages - Droit international
A new jurisdiction in the history of international accountability of human rights is being set up, but with a limited action which makes it different than a world court. In this document we will analyze the justifications for the lack of commitment by the United States of America towards...
Discuss the use made by the European Court of Justice of Articles 10 and 249 EC (ex Articles 5 and 189) to increase the effectiveness of Community law for individuals
Dissertation - 9 pages - Droit européen
International Law, by its nature binds the State in its executive, legislative, and judicial activities, and no international tribunal would permit a respondent State to plead provisions of its law or constitutions as a defence to an alleged infringement of an international obligations. It is the...
The role (present and future) of the European Court of Justice in the protection of asylum-seekers in the European Union
Dissertation - 13 pages - Droit international
The European Court of Justice has laid down a legal Act pertaining to the judicial protection towards asylum seekers. However, this act is not completely flawless. Even if all the Member States ratify the new constitution and it be made effective thereafter, the future of the asylum...
?The European Union Court of Justice is more relevant for the advance of the EU political unity than the Commission and the Parliament' - Discuss
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit européen
The European Union's political role has been a big issue among the main theoriticians of the European Union. The place of the European Parliament and the Commission in the process toward political unity is obvious. The Commission, as the institution which has the power for an initiative, can...
Why has the European Court of Justice been so central to the process of integration?
Dissertation - 9 pages - Droit européen
“Law is often still treated as if it were a separate field, clearly distinct from the economic or political spheres” . As the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has never been given a lot of media coverage, most of the time, its role in the integration process is either disregarded...
"An English court should solve problems of characterisation by applying the only concepts with which it is familiar, namely those of the forum." Discuss the proposition critically with reference to decided cases
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit autres branches
The English conflict of laws is a body of rules whose purpose is to assist an English court to deal with cases tried before it which contain a foreign element. It consists of three main topics: (i) the jurisdiction of an English court, in the sense of its competence to hear and...
The Supreme Court of the United States : a single institution in its kind
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit autres branches
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the judiciary. Established in 1789 by the Constitution of the United States, the Supreme Court is at the same time, the...
Courts, unelected tyrants and public forums
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit constitutionnel
In 2000, during the American presidential elections, the role of the Supreme Court was highly contested. Indeed, it consists of a majority of judges appointed by republican presidents and it decided to stop counting the voices manually in contested towns in Florida and George Bush won the...
The U.S. supreme court: powers and limits
Dissertation - 2 pages - Droit international
Article III of the United States Constitution was the first to provide for a federal judiciary, namely the Supreme Court. The power of this Court was detailed and enshrined in the Constitution by the Founding Fathers. However, its authority has since been widely extended by the...
Evaluate the Importance of the Supreme Court in the US Political System: In What Ways Is It a Political Actor?
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit constitutionnel
The Supreme Court, the highest court in the American judicial system, is one of the three branches of the US national government. In 1803, a mechanism was put in place to ensure that governmental officials and governmental institutions would respect the limitations prescribed in the...
To what degree does the Supreme Court have a 'political' role? And in what 'political' direction have the most recent courts taken the Supreme Court?
Étude de cas - 6 pages - Droit international
The judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous' in the department of power. This opinion, formulated by Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist papers, relies on a restrictive vision of the role of judges, considered as 'mouths of the law'. According...
International Criminal Court
Cours - 19 pages - Droit international
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the only independent and permanent court which deals with the most serious crimes committed by people, which are genocide, crime of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICCs based on the Rome Statute of the International...
The French Conseil Constitutionnel: In comparison with Constitutional Courts
Dissertation - 11 pages - Droit constitutionnel
I believe that constitutional courts play a major role in legal systems. After the introduction of the 'Conseil Constitutionnel' in 1958, Louis Favoreu, a public law teacher, claimed, 'L'Etat de droit est désormais complet en France'. Indeed, it is often considered that...
The European Court of Justice and the rule of Precedent
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit européen
The rule of precedent is the legal principle under which judges have to follow the judgments established previously by upper courts. The Latin translation of "stare decisis" gives an unequivocal definition of the concept as it means "to stand by that which is decided". Precedent underpins...
Protection of homosexual rights by the European Court of Justice and influence of its decisions in member states' national legal order.
Dissertation - 14 pages - Droit européen
The institutionalization of Europe was done in favor of the protection of liberty and human rights. But, is this protection effective for sexual minorities and more precisely for homosexual community? In January 18th 2006, the Parliament of Europe adopted a resolution on homophobia. This measure...
The role of the ECJ's (European Court of Justice) : the consumer who is reasonably well-informed and reasonably observant and circumspect
Dissertation - 14 pages - Droit européen
The legal term of the “average consumer” was created by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to protect the average consumer against unfair commercial practises. After the Second War World, many states were indeed inspired by Keynes's theory that aimed at division of resources...
Has the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Saadi v UK struck the right balance between the protection of human rights and the control of irregular migration?
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit européen
The objective of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) may be defined to ensure the rights and fundamental liberties of any individual who enters the European territory and give remedies against unlawful actions by the States. However, it has in some cases had troubles to strike the...
Can constitutional courts be characterized as policy makers?
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Droit de la concurrence
The theme of political role of judges is an old one in the literature of democratic countries. Indeed, Alexis de Tocqueville already tackled the “political importance” of the courts in his famous Democracy in America (1835). The reason is that there is inevitably, in modern...
US Supreme Court rules evidence admissible despite police error
Commentaire de texte - 3 pages - Droit international
In this day and age, society is becoming increasingly reliant on computer technologies. The police are no exception to that rule. But what happens when the database gets it wrong? This is what an American journalist, Daniel Nasaw, discusses in this article, which was published in the British...
Les courtes peines d'emprisonnement
Dissertation - 20 pages - Droit pénal
La peine privative de liberté est intimement liée à l'idée de réponse à commission d'une infraction, dont elle a été la première illustration dès les premières années du XIXe siècle, et en reste la principale aujourd'hui. En effet, la peine d'emprisonnement ferme est toujours...
« Une Constitution doit être courte et obscure » - Napoléon Bonaparte - Qu'est-ce que cette citation implique pour la compréhension et l'interprétation de la Constitution ?
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Dans le cadre de cette étude, nous examinerons les implications de cette déclaration quant à la compréhension et l'interprétation de la Constitution. En nous appuyant sur notre expertise en droit constitutionnel, sciences politiques et histoire politique, nous chercherons à fournir une...
European Court of Justice, September 17, 2007 - Abuse of dominant positions
Commentaire d'arrêt - 6 pages - Droit de la concurrence
On September 17, 2007, the European Court of Justice issued a ruling concerning the litigation between Microsoft and The European Commission for anticompetitive behavior. It all started on December 10, 1998, when Sun Microsystems lodged a complaint with The European Commission arguing that...
The jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit international
The Preamble of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) first recognizes serious crimes committed in the 20th Centur. It refers directly to genocides and crimes against humanity committed all around the world in the past century. As recent examples of those terrible...
High Court of Justice Chancery Division on 29th October 2008, Carr v Beavan: the testamentary capacity
Commentaire d'arrêt - 4 pages - Droit civil
The court has to focus on the testator mental capacity at the time of making his will, since a man diminished in physical and even mental strength may nevertheless make a valid will, provided that he was in possession of his full capacity at the precise time of the writing of the will. In...
